CaseLight1978

Braintree and RAF Weatherfield (between) (UK/England), United Kingdom

I was active duty (USAF) at the time, I was driving home (car-pooling) with a fellow worker, his name is Mike Bugno. We were in his VW

Report quality: Moderate49/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-02-23
Where
Braintree and RAF Weatherfield (between) (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Light
Duration
3-4 minutes
Geo
Slug
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Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Braintree and RAF Weatherfield (between) (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
  • United Kingdom logged 14 sightings in 1978.
  • Light sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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